We had our Coffee Chat yesterday and many of our regular members attended.  Some of our favorites from the 2014 book selections included:

Drop Dead Healthy	Jacobs, A.J.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald	Fowler, Therese Anne
Home Front	Hannah, Kristin
Good Dream	VanLiere, Donna
Wild	Strayed, Cheryl
Where We Belong	Giffin, Emily

Some of the books we didn't read for book group but were recommended by members included:

The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus
Century Trilogy	Follett, Ken
Fever Tree	McVeigh, Jennifer
Lei Crime series (on order @ LME Library)	Neal, Toby
The Martian	Weir, Andy

Our next book group meeting will be January 26, 2015 at 3pm in the Turner Room.  All are welcome! We will be discussing The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.  

Our last book club meeting was March 31 when we discussed Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler.   For refreshments we had ginger ale, mini chocolate croissants, berries and crostini.

Our next book will meet April 28th at 3pm in the Turner Room.  Our book is Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. Discussion sheets are available in the library and online.  Please join us!

Our book group meet on 2/24 and discussed Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs.  We had healthy snacks and everyone enjoyed the book.

Our next read is Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler.  Discussion sheets are available in the library.  The online sheet will be available shortly.  We'll meet on March 31 at 3pm in the Turner Room.  

Wondering how we pick the books for bookgroup?  Well, it's a group effort!  Beth pulls together potential titles throughout the year from reading lists and suggestions from the group.  Since we have several members who prefer large print or audio, she then checks to make sure that the title is available in these formats.  If a title does not have multiple formats, we don't use it for bookgroup.

In October, the list is complete and sheets are made up with all the potential titles.  We review half the books at the October bookgroup meeting and vote on our favorites. The other half is reviewed the same way in November.

So far, we've looked at some fiction titles.  Next month, we will review the rest of the fiction and choose the non-fiction.  Do we have any titles chosen yet?  You bet!  We still need to choose at least 4 more fiction titles and 3 non-fiction books but here are 5 fiction books we will be reading next year:

• Home Front by Kristin Hannah
• Someone: A Novel by Alice McDermott
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
• Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Once we have all the books chosen, we'll post them to this blog.  Watch for the list in early December and don't forget to talk about a good book!